William James Quotes About Destiny

Quotes about: Destiny

• Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing.

  William James

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Responsibility

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.95, Harvard University Press

• Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies.

  William James

  Destiny, Higher, Critical

  William James (2013). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.92, Courier Corporation

• All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.

  William James

  Spiritual, Military, Destiny

• Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.

  William James

  Destiny, Men, Tree

• It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all.

  William James

  Religious, Reality, Destiny

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.394, Harvard University Press

• That reality is 'independent' means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible experience it coerces our attention; if a sequence, we cannot invert it; if we compare two terms we can come to only one result. There is a push, an urgency, within our very experience, against which we are on the whole powerless, and which drives us in a direction that is the destiny of our belief.

  William James

  Independent, Mean, Reality

  William James (2015). “The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding”, p.27, 谷月社

• What a magnificent land and race is this Britain! Everything about them is of better quality than the corresponding thing in the U.S.... Yet I believe (or suspect) that ours is eventually the bigger destiny, if we can only succeed in living up to it.

  William James

  Believe, Destiny, Race

  William James, Elizabeth Hardwick (1980). “The Selected Letters of William James”, David R Godine Pub

• We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.

  William James

  Destiny, Influence, Opening

  Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.739, Simon and Schuster

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